The device was noticed at about 1 p.m. Tuesday by a crew with Kitsap Community Resources/AmeriCorps who were cleaning the roadway. An AmeriCorps worker partially unraveled the device, thought it was suspicious and called 911. Port Orchard police examined the device without touching it and determined it to be a "sparkler bomb."

"These types of bombs can be lethal," an officer's report states.

The officers closed the road to foot traffic and summoned the WSP bomb squad, who arrived at about 2:30 p.m.

A resident of the neighborhood told officers she had heard a loud explosion that "shook the living room" about 9 p.m. Monday. When she looked out the window, she didn't see anyone or anything amiss. The woman described the noise as being "like a cannon had gone off."